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About Book
About Book
The most interesting conversations in China right now are happening in private.
Yuan Li, a columnist for The New York Times, hopes to share these interesting conversations with people around the world in the form of a podcast. In May 2022, during the lockdown of Shanghai due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Yuan Li launched the "Bubai Podcast" under her personal name.
She said that she named the show "Understand" because there are so many things in China that are contrary to common sense and worth exploring; she and her friends made the show because she wanted to emit a little light and warmth in this dark and chaotic era to ease political depression.
"Be brave yourself, rather than hoping for a brave person to appear."
The "Bubai" podcast interviews leading scholars, researchers, news event participants, entrepreneurs, and ordinary people from diverse backgrounds, focusing on topics such as the Chinese economy, totalitarianism, and personal freedom. Since its launch, the podcast has become a vital source of information for understanding contemporary Chinese politics and society, and a bridge connecting the outside world with its audience.
On the occasion of its second anniversary, the "Don't Understand Podcast" decided to select chapters from nearly 100 episodes and compile them into a book. The book "Don't Understand - Why China Has Come to This Point" will help readers decode China's party-state system and economic difficulties, and see the stories of ordinary people living in China today and protesters who hope to change the status quo through action.
In-depth interviews: Responding to the "I don't understand" of this era
I don’t understand because in this magical country, there are too many things that go against common sense and are worth exploring.
For two years, the "Unclear Podcast," a rare forum for discussion amidst China's repressive politics, has consistently conducted in-depth interviews with experts and scholars skilled in political analysis, workers struggling to survive amidst the economic quagmire, and frontline protesters. "It allows Chinese people to hear each other's genuine voices, sincere thoughts, and incisive analysis."
This book carefully selects 15 important interviews to convey the real questions and voices of contemporary China.
In a party-state system, where individual will controls the entire party, how does a dictatorship emerge?
A detailed explanation of the CCP's political logic and the evolution of its national surveillance system
How has China's ideological landscape changed dramatically over the past decade?
Why is China's real estate industry facing serious problems amidst its economic crisis?
Will China, facing deflation, follow the same path as the Soviet Union? Will continued economic recession and unemployment lead to the collapse of the system?
The voices in the night range from entrepreneurs who have risen from wealth to poverty, young people unable to find work, and migrant workers struggling in the recession. The internet legend "Programmer" and his wife, Bei Zhenying, sentenced to seven years in prison; the protesters of the "White Paper Movement" who took to the streets; and "Teacher Li is Not Your Teacher," who single-handedly challenged the Great Firewall of China...
Who are they and why do they have the courage to resist?
Where does the night end?
Features of this book
During the Shanghai lockdown, New York Times columnist Yuan Li fell into political depression, spending her days scrolling through her phone and shedding tears. "I wanted to do something that would allow me to communicate directly with people in the Chinese-speaking world and, through that, shake off this deep feeling of powerlessness," she said.
She created the "Bubai Podcast," attempting to answer the question: Why has China come to this? This book, featuring 15 selected interviews from 100 episodes of Bubai, deeply deciphers China's party-state system, its economic predicament, and the love and suffering, resistance, and hope of ordinary people.
Yuan Li, a columnist for The New York Times, hopes to share these interesting conversations with people around the world in the form of a podcast. In May 2022, during the lockdown of Shanghai due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Yuan Li launched the "Bubai Podcast" under her personal name.
She said that she named the show "Understand" because there are so many things in China that are contrary to common sense and worth exploring; she and her friends made the show because she wanted to emit a little light and warmth in this dark and chaotic era to ease political depression.
"Be brave yourself, rather than hoping for a brave person to appear."
The "Bubai" podcast interviews leading scholars, researchers, news event participants, entrepreneurs, and ordinary people from diverse backgrounds, focusing on topics such as the Chinese economy, totalitarianism, and personal freedom. Since its launch, the podcast has become a vital source of information for understanding contemporary Chinese politics and society, and a bridge connecting the outside world with its audience.
On the occasion of its second anniversary, the "Don't Understand Podcast" decided to select chapters from nearly 100 episodes and compile them into a book. The book "Don't Understand - Why China Has Come to This Point" will help readers decode China's party-state system and economic difficulties, and see the stories of ordinary people living in China today and protesters who hope to change the status quo through action.
In-depth interviews: Responding to the "I don't understand" of this era
I don’t understand because in this magical country, there are too many things that go against common sense and are worth exploring.
For two years, the "Unclear Podcast," a rare forum for discussion amidst China's repressive politics, has consistently conducted in-depth interviews with experts and scholars skilled in political analysis, workers struggling to survive amidst the economic quagmire, and frontline protesters. "It allows Chinese people to hear each other's genuine voices, sincere thoughts, and incisive analysis."
This book carefully selects 15 important interviews to convey the real questions and voices of contemporary China.
In a party-state system, where individual will controls the entire party, how does a dictatorship emerge?
A detailed explanation of the CCP's political logic and the evolution of its national surveillance system
How has China's ideological landscape changed dramatically over the past decade?
Why is China's real estate industry facing serious problems amidst its economic crisis?
Will China, facing deflation, follow the same path as the Soviet Union? Will continued economic recession and unemployment lead to the collapse of the system?
The voices in the night range from entrepreneurs who have risen from wealth to poverty, young people unable to find work, and migrant workers struggling in the recession. The internet legend "Programmer" and his wife, Bei Zhenying, sentenced to seven years in prison; the protesters of the "White Paper Movement" who took to the streets; and "Teacher Li is Not Your Teacher," who single-handedly challenged the Great Firewall of China...
Who are they and why do they have the courage to resist?
Where does the night end?
Features of this book
During the Shanghai lockdown, New York Times columnist Yuan Li fell into political depression, spending her days scrolling through her phone and shedding tears. "I wanted to do something that would allow me to communicate directly with people in the Chinese-speaking world and, through that, shake off this deep feeling of powerlessness," she said.
She created the "Bubai Podcast," attempting to answer the question: Why has China come to this? This book, featuring 15 selected interviews from 100 episodes of Bubai, deeply deciphers China's party-state system, its economic predicament, and the love and suffering, resistance, and hope of ordinary people.
Publication Date
Publication Date
2024-07-01
Publisher
Publisher
飛地工作室
Imprint
Imprint
Pages
Pages
416
ISBN
ISBN
9786269836222
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